Word: lended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...providing himself with a club with which to clip Otto Passman, chairman of the Foreign Aid Appropriations subcommittee, behind the ear. The Committee, which would surely recommend a few minor cuts in expenditure and give the rest of foreign aid its blessing, would at last lend the programs an appearance respectable enough to cow the Congress...
Trading Up. Borrowing to finance a car is also easier because bankers are overstocked with deposits on which they pay 4% interest, and are eager to lend out at an auto loan rate that, in effect, amounts to 8.2%. Though some lenders are accepting many credit risks that they once thumbed down, they estimate that the rate of car repossessions has shrunk to a remarkably low 590 per 100,000 sales-one-third less than in 1961-while total auto installment credit hit a record of close to $20 billion in February. One reason: personal income is up 4% from...
...briefly held a State Department job, accompanied Vice President Johnson on a round-the-world trip. When old Joe Kennedy suffered a stroke in December 1961, Smith moved to New York to oversee some Kennedy financial enterprises. But last summer he turned up again in Boston-this time to lend his now mature experience to ironing out the wrinkles in Teddy Kennedy's victorious senatorial campaign...
...Europe, effectively limits most of its loans to the Commonwealth and the sterling area. France imposes such heavy restrictions on capital that only 15% of the investment of its own businessmen comes from the capital market. The Dutch and the Swiss both clamp ceilings on what they will lend. Most German interest rates are so high-and bankers demand so much control over companies that they lend to-that earlier this year the prosperous Neckermann mail-order house sought almost all of a $10 million loan outside Germany ($1.2 million in the U.S.) to keep out of the bankers...
Surprisingly enough, beneath all the sukiyaki, Producer Hal Wallis has put together an entertaining little picture; the neon wetness of Tokyo streets and the misty watercolors of the countryside in the exterior shots lend a much needed credibility to the convolutions of the plot. Harvey wants a visa to the U.S. Hyer, as a receptionist at the U.S. embassy, is willing to expedite it, provided he comes to terms, her terms. Nuyen counters by finding work for him in Japan to prove that despite his Sino-Russian origins and his British accent, he has a future there. Hyer ripostes with...